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Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

➡️ XVIII International Congress of Celtic Studies. Salamanca, 26–30 April 2027 🗓️ Deadline for individual paper submissions: 1 November 🚨 Registration now open: internationalcelticcongresssalamanca.com

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?

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British Branch | International Arthurian Society @ias-britishbranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‼️Call for papers‼️ We are accepting proposals for papers for the XXVIII Congress of the International Arthurian Society at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 26th-30th July 2027. Abstracts should be sent to ias2027@st-andrews.ac.uk by the 18th September 2026 Read carefully ias2027.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Claire 🧙‍♂️ @clairelober.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's still time to register for the upcoming @amc-waw.bsky.social conference! (Deadline 25 Sept.) I'll be talking about the Rachel Bromwich collection, in my first-ever Welsh-language paper

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A spell in a 15th-century grimoire for summoning a demon to find buried treasure. Sloane MS 3849, f. 18r. #medievalsky

Medieval spell to find buried treasure, with diagrams. When you come to a place where you believe there to be treasure hidden, you must draw a quadrangle in the earth as shown in the diagrams. Then burn or boil frankincense, saffron, and a dyed red rose and breath in the fumes, presenting the concoction to each corner of the quadrangle, this will bind the spirit to you when he appears in one of the corners.

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Archif Menywod Cymru ~ Women's Archive Wales @amc-waw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Are you passionate about women’s history? Are you interested in women’s history in Wales? If so, please join Women’s Archive Wales for our Annual Conference at Swansea.Com Football stadium, Landore, Swansea, on 4-5 October. Full details and booking on our website: www.womensarchivewales.org/en/

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Archif Menywod Cymru ~ Women's Archive Wales @amc-waw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ydych chi’n angerddol am hanes menywod? Oes diddordeb gennych chi yn hanes menywod yng Nghymru? Os felly, ymunwch ag Archif Menywod Cymru yn ein Cynhadledd Flynyddol eleni yn stadiwm bêl-droed Swansea.com, Glandŵr, Abertawe, 4-5 Hydref. Manylion llawn ar ein gwefan: www.womensarchivewales.org/cy/

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CSANA @csanaceltic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apply here: icms.confex.com/icms/2027/pr...

There is still time to apply to the CSANA- sponsored panel at ICMS Kalamazoo!

New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies

This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies. All disciplines of Celtic Studies are welcomed. This session is sponsored by the Celtic Studies Association of North America. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15.

Abstracts may be submitted here: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8998

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 02/09/2026

Ancient parchments, covered in ancient disease DNA! Researchers led by @ucddublin.bsky.social's @gingerhowley.bsky.social recover the genes of a deadly animal pathogen from medieval manuscripts. @science.org

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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How about the cover reveal for my new adult novel MERIDIAN?!?! Out in February on @canongate.co.uk in the UK and on Restless Books in the US!! This is the US cover; the UK is very slightly different but equally gorgeous.

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · 24/08/2026

oops, all frogs. germany, 15th c

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Claire 🧙‍♂️ @clairelober.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tips on recovering from PhD writing? It has been submitted but my ability to think and be creative has not bounced back as of yet.

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Teythi cath yw e bot yn keflegat kefuewyn kefdanhet. a llad llegot yn da. The qualities of a cat are her being of perfect eyes, perfect claws, perfect teeth - and to kill mice well. 🐈‍⬛ 1/3

Several lines of Welsh between text in Latin. From a Latin redaction of the Welsh laws in National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 28, fol. 26r.

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The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS ‼️| Otherworlds | 12th - 15th November | @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social The MEMRN team are delighted to finally share the Call for Papers for this year’s exciting Winter Conference! Abstract submissions are now open for ‘Otherworlds’ !!! 🐉

A mysterious floating city on a rock emerges from wispy green and violet smoke and enigmatic galactic clouds. Birds and mythical creatures fly around this emerald city. The post reads: The Medieval & Early Modern Research Network, Otherworlds. Call for Papers. 12th - 15th November, University of East Anglia.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

'O' what am I doing here? 🤔 BnF MS Latin 909; Troparium, Cantatorium et officia adusum Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis; 10th to 11th century; Limoges; f.157r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Medieval Welsh literature is still right there, waiting… Want to see King Arthur’s court populated with guys who wear their lip as a hood or who roll around instead of walking? How about Cai riding a giant ancient salmon? Arthur in climactic battle with an old woman? cc @rhyskamjones.bsky.social

Screenshot of a quote post by @rhyskamjones.bsky.social that reads “We are waiting patiently for the cowards to put this guy in the next King Arthur film” The quoted post by @myriahwilliams.bsky.social reads “Gwefl son of Gwastad: when he was sad he would let his one lip droop down to his navel and the other would be a cowl on his head. Gỽeuyl mab gỽestat. y dyd y bei drist y gollyngei y lleill weuyl idaỽ y waeret hyt y uogel. ar llall a uydei yn pennguch ar y penn.” This is followed by a picture of the text from Jesus College MS 111 (The Red Book of Hergest)

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

With @csanaceltic.bsky.social (The Celtic Studies Association of North America) now on Bluesky, it seems like a good time to re-share the Celtic Studies starter pack I started awhile back. I’ve tried to keep it updated but if I’ve missed anyone please let me know!

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CSANA @csanaceltic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

CSANA is now on Bluesky, Instagram, and Facebook! Follow us so you don't miss any updates - we have many exciting things planned! www.instagram.com/csana_celtic... www.facebook.com/share/1EJJN4...

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

queck, queck, queck BL Add 49622, f.190v @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sometimes the Childe’s small island school is so different. They’re learning cursive. Because the KIDS wanted to learn it so badly. And the Childe’s cursive writing is markedly better than print. The second/third graders just got together & decided “No, this won’t do, we need more fancy.”

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

What skilled contemporary repair work in this William of Malmesbury autograph manuscript, c.1125. (Oxford, Lincoln College, MS Lat.100)

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A happy horse in the Liber ordinationum of the medieval City of London, next to some regulations for riding. The London Archives, COL/CS/01/005.

Drawing of a smiling and saddled horse in a medieval manuscript

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!

7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It’s #Eurovision Saturday. I will not be providing commentary this year due to the actions of a country I don’t need to name. Please feel free to read my Eurovision books, which are not irrelevant to said situation, instead. amzn.to/3PljqSP

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Space Opera (Space Opera, The)

A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up e...

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Association of Celtic Students @celticstudents.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Registration for the 2026 Celtic Students Conference is now live. This includes our conference dinner. Attendance at the dinner is limited to the first 40—so register ASAP! www.eventbrite.com/e/celtic-stu...

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you hear any ominous screaming tonight (nos Galan Mai) the dragons have probably escaped and the instructions below need repeating 🕳️ 🐉 🐖 🍻 📦

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Charmed to encounter the word "sp[ar]kyrlls" (sparkles) in this Middle English manuscript. Yes, the sparkles are the sparkles of the fires of hell, but they are still sparkly ✨

a screenshot of fol. 42r in British Library Additional MS 37049. At the bottom are legible the words "þe sp[ar]kyrlls ar borne vp & downe". Above are illustrations of Death stabbing a sorrowful-looking person in the heart with his spear, and grimacing figures writhing in pain amid all-consuming flames. I love the fifteenth-century!

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Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A fantastic opportunity to learn Cornish! #Cornish #Kernewek #AcademicSky #SummerSchool

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Seoladh leabhair - Book launch Ben Guy and Patrick Wadden Propaganda in the Medieval Celtic Lands: Interrogating a Paradigm DIAS, 10 Burlington Road 6pm Déardaoin 30 Aibreán / Thursday 30 April @dias.ie

Poster advertising new publication, Propaganda in the Medieval Celtic Lands.

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Léacht - Lecture Ben Guy @department-asnc.bsky.social How to write a history of Britain in the ninth century: Historia Brittonum and its sources DIAS 10 Burlington Road 5pm 30 Aibreán/April @dias.ie

Lecture notice: Ben Guy, How to write a history of Britain in the ninth century, DIAS Dublin, 5 pm 30 April 2026

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Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🚨 Call for papers: 45th Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 9–11 October 2026 🗓️ Abstracts due by midnight: Monday, May 4th, 2026 #CfP #AcademicSky celtic.fas.harvard.edu/45th-hcc-cal...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I feel like sharing my favorite writing trick with people. When I've finished up for the day, I leave the doc open or the paper out on my desk, having stopped in the middle of a paragraph, w some directions to myself in brackets. That way when I get back to it, I have my task laid out for me.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Bees gathering nectar; and a bee-keeper gathering wax for the paschal candle #EasterVigil BL Add MS 30337; the Monte Cassino Exultet Roll; c.1075 CE-c.1080 CE; Southern Italy (Monte Cassino); membrane 10 @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Struggling with your Anglo-Norman? You're in the good company of this medieval reader who glossed the start of this text using Latin and Middle English (before giving up). @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Selden Supra 74

Anglo Norman text with later glosses in Latin and Middle English

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s Trans Day of Visibility in a world where that’s been harder than ever. Salute to those who are bravely out, to those who wish they could be so, and to those who didn’t make it to this day. Believe trans people. Simple as that.

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Thinking about Lancelot being menaced by a corgi in his dreams, a change in the Welsh adaptation of Perlesvaus from the French "petit mastin" (little mastiff). "And then Lancelot saw in his sleep that a corgi was barking at him, and five cur-dogs with him were falling on him from all sides, ..."

Several lines of Middle Welsh from Ystoryaeu Seint Greal in National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 11, fol. 191r. The text begins with a large initial rubricated in light blue and reads: "Ac ar hynny ef a welei laỽnslot drỽy y hun bot corrgi yn y gyfarth a phump costaỽc tom y gyt ac ef yn y hapeaỽ o pop parth idaỽ a miliast y gyt ac ỽynt yn y temigiaỽ."

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Someone drew a little bird in a hat in this 16th century Welsh manuscript of regulations for bards. British Library, Add MS 19711.

A large 'H' in red with a pen drawing of a bird wearing a tall hat

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

hey i need to pop out for a sec can you keep an eye on him for me thanks

a medieval drawing of a naked man with no head and a face on his chest

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My favorite maniculae are in the Black Book of Carmarthen (NLW Peniarth MS 1). Both are drawn to "catch" run-ons split over the end of a line, but only one actually serves that purpose. The other acts as a nota bene signalling a verse line that should be added to the main text. This raises a ? 👇

A manuscript page with a manicule shaped to "catch" a run-on but not serving that purpose in the left margin. Above and below it are verse lines, encircled in black and red respectively, with insertion marks showing where each should be placed in the main text. National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 1, fol. 29v.

A manicule catches the last two letters of the name madauc which overran the line and so were dropped down into the next. The manicule has a sleeve with red stripes and a cuff. National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 1, fol. 52r.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

There was always the over ambitious one too: bsky.app/profile/medm...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.

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Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

How to Train Your Dragon 🐉🐉 Peraldus' Theological Miscellany, 1236-c.1250 (Harley MS 3244, f. 59r) searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

An opening from a medieval manuscript of Peraldus' Theological miscellany, showing illustrations of dragons and serpents.

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Darlith gyhoeddus flynyddol y Ganolfan Astudiaethau Arthuraidd --- Annual public lecture of the Centre for Arthurian Studies 5.30 y.h. / 5.30 p.m. Prif Ddarlithfa'r Celfyddydau / Main Arts Lecture Theatre

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The Archives & Special Collections Annual Exhibition The Menai Suspension Bridge 1826-2026 – Celebrating the Bicentenary You can view the exhibition on the Council Chamber Corridor, Main Arts Building The exhibition is also available to view online here: sway.cloud.microsoft/OEWxRznJOcdb...

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